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Ringfort - rath

Newquay, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newquay, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newquay
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lissavorneed
Latest-edition OS map
Lissavorneen (1915)
Coordinates
53.15304, -9.09825
SMR number
CL003-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On good pastureland, near the top of a low but moderately steep NE-facing slope. Hachured and named ‘Lissavorneen’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lios an Boirnín on Robinson’s map (1977). A large poorly preserved oval rath (45.7m E–W; 41m N–S crest to crest) defined by a low but wide earthen bank upon which a later field wall runs SE–NW. The outer face of the bank is denuded of sod cover along the W side showing its earthen construction. A gap (Wth 6m) at SE may be the site of a now enlarged original entrance. A second gap (Wth 1.4m) at ENE is a modern cattle gap. A now inaccessible souterrain (CL005-004002-) is located in the SW sector.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 15 December 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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